FDR #1

Franklin D. Roosevelt's plan for helping the country's economy was called:

• The Great Society
• The Constitution
• The Great Depression
• The New Deal

What is the FDIC?

• Federal Demographic Insurance Commission
• Fire Department Instructor's Conference
• Federal Distance Interstate Committee
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Which New Deal program was chiefly designed to correct abuses in the stock market?

• Civilian Conservation Corps
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
• Securities and Exchange Commission
• National Recovery Administration

What was Roosevelt’s goal in creating the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?

• Restore the public’s faith in financial institutions
• Stimulate demand for manufactured goods
• Provide jobs for the unemployed
• Help farmers pay back their loans

Which event is considered by most people to mark the beginning of the Great Depression?

• The End of Prohibition

• The New Deal

• The Stock Market Crash

• The Election of Herbert Hoover

FDR closed all of the ___________in order to audit them and make sure all their records were in order. Only the strongest & SOLVENT ones were allowed to re-open.

• banks

• stock markets

• businesses

• corporations

The FDIC insured peoples money so that if the bank ____________they would pay back all their money.

• invested their money elsewhere

• gave their money to someone else

• failed

• sells their money

In FDR's first ___________________in office, he sent many bills through congress.

• term

• 100 days

• month

• 10 weeks

FDR addressed the American public in weekly broadcasts known as:

• FDR Hour
• Hangin' With Franklin
• Fireside Chats
• Around the Fire

What was the name of FDR's plans and programs designed to meet the needs and problems of the Great Depression?

• New Deal
• Great Deal
• Social Security
• the New Liberalism